Druple

The UPS Store. After all the hype, I found the nearest brown store in Google Maps, and even called the number. I asked for the least busy times, since it was 11AM Pacific time, and for the nearest cross street. The man on the phone knew I was planning to come in today- 2-11-10! However, when I appeared at the storefront, I discovered that it was months from being open. Since I don't carry a cell phone, the nice manager of Gelsons let me use their phone, where I called the zombie gentleman at the number I had called earlier and he told me all the numbers go to the central office. Obviously he had known he was sending me to a useless destination. Rather than giving this dumb zombie the pleasure of my anger, I calmly told him I was going to the Post Office; and the entire errand took less than half the time I wasted looking for Brown! I usually recommend USPS because of lower cost, but if this is what Brown can do for me, I see that The United States Postal Service may have better customer service also!!

pooflady

Druple wrote:The UPS Store. After all the hype, I found the nearest brown store in Google Maps, and even called the number. I asked for the least busy times, since it was 11AM Pacific time, and for the nearest cross street. The man on the phone knew I was planning to come in today- 2-11-10! However, when I appeared at the storefront, I discovered that it was months from being open. Since I don't carry a cell phone, the nice manager of Gelsons let me use their phone, where I called the zombie gentleman at the number I had called earlier and he told me all the numbers go to the central office. Obviously he had known he was sending me to a useless destination. Rather than giving this dumb zombie the pleasure of my anger, I calmly told him I was going to the Post Office; and the entire errand took less than half the time I wasted looking for Brown! I usually recommend USPS because of lower cost, but if this is what Brown can do for me, I see that The United States Postal Service may have better customer service also!!

lplady

1nthistogether

I think being alone is harder and i just hate it. It's just a sad place to be sometimes, no matter how full your life may be. There are days when I'm really glad that I don't have to think about another person, but that's a double edged sword. No one is thinking about me either.

PemberDucky

1nthistogether wrote:I think being alone is harder and i just hate it. It's just a sad place to be sometimes, no matter how full your life may be. There are days when I'm really glad that I don't have to think about another person, but that's a double edged sword. No one is thinking about me either.

Is it creepy if I tell you that I think about you all the time?

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Mavyn

Discovering someone has been lying to a friend. Do you tell the friend, and accept the 'shoot the messenger' syndrome? I have access to information they don't, which is how the lie was discovered...Gah. Why did I even look?!??

pooflady

Mavyn wrote:Discovering someone has been lying to a friend. Do you tell the friend, and accept the 'shoot the messenger' syndrome? I have access to information they don't, which is how the lie was discovered...Gah. Why did I even look?!??

KtCallista

Mavyn wrote:Discovering someone has been lying to a friend. Do you tell the friend, and accept the 'shoot the messenger' syndrome? I have access to information they don't, which is how the lie was discovered...Gah. Why did I even look?!??

Is the friend being hurt by the lie and it needs to stop right now? Tell the friend. If not I'd confront the liar first, and give them a timeline to come clean.

PemberDucky

Mavyn wrote:The person lying is not a friend and will not respond to me. And it's not something easily remedied, but it is hurtful. :/ And maybe they're not lying, it's just bad timing? I don't know.

The problem is I didn't look with the intent of 'catching' a lie, I was really just being nosy...not the best of explanations.

Sigh. I told my friend what I found, apologized for being nosy, and will just deal with the consequences.

I think it's good that you told your friend. For one thing, that's what friends do: protect them from harm.
For another thing, what if it somehow came to pass that your friend discovered that you know whatever it is that you know, and was thus hurt that you didn't tell him or her that you already found out what you know? That would suck. You know?
The nosy thing? Hey, you owned up to it. And with the Intertubes and mobile communication devices and the flying cars, it's hard not to be nosy these days.

Just to stay on topic, you know what I really hate? Fluorescent lighting.

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Smoothesuede

I have a few action figures of my favorite comic book characters on my desk at work. They are off in a corner and you need to be in my cubicle to notice them. I get told they are an eyesore and I need to get rid of them.
The guy across the hall from me has 100 giant, gleaming, makes-you-blind-from-the-glare gold sports trophies and he gets congratulated.

mwiseman

I have a few action figures of my favorite comic book characters on my desk at work. They are off in a corner and you need to be in my cubicle to notice them. I get told they are an eyesore and I need to get rid of them.
The guy across the hall from me has 100 giant, gleaming, makes-you-blind-from-the-glare gold sports trophies and he gets congratulated.

It bugs me. It really does.

Well, once you hack into his Fantasy Football profile and change all of his starters to WOW characters, humiliate him in a D-cell light saber duel and finally, write a virus that will lock all of the office PCs while running continuous loops of Keyboard Cat -- only then will they start to accept and respect nerd culture.

KtCallista

mwiseman wrote:Well, once you hack into his Fantasy Football profile and change all of his starters to WOW characters, humiliate him in a D-cell light saber duel and finally, write a virus that will lock all of the office PCs while running continuous loops of Keyboard Cat -- only then will they start to accept and respect nerd culture.

//sigh, we have to do all that!

To original poster: You know the only reason your co-worker has those trophies in his cube is because his significant other is sick of them needing to be polished at the house.

Smoothesuede

Tacky, overused office humor.
When you hear the line "I KEEL YOU!!" past a certain number of times a day, or if you get one too many Maxine email forwards (Maxine is the cartoon/comic grumpy old lady Hallmark loves) then pretty soon you realize how close you are to recreating the movie Falling Down.

KtCallista

I hate it when I need a pen and all I can find are cheap fine (or extra fine) point ball point pens and I can never get them to work without pressing extra hard and holding the pen at an oddly upright angle.

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